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Journal Articles

2024

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Edible Soft Actuators based on Konjac Glucomannan for Underwater Operation

R. Kanno; B. Kwak; M. Pankhurst; J. Shintake; D. Floreano 

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2024-03-08. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202300473.
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Fast-Response Variable-Stiffness Magnetic Catheters for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Y. Piskarev; Y. Sun; M. Righi; Q. Boehler; C. Chautems et al. 

Advanced Science. 2024-01-15. Vol. 11, num. 12, p. 1-14. DOI : 10.1002/advs.202470069.

2023

Use of an unmanned aerial-aquatic vehicle for acoustic sensing in freshwater ecosystems

J. Lawson; A. Farinha; L. Romanello; O. Pang; R. Zufferey et al. 

Remote Sensing In Ecology And Conservation. 2023-12-25. DOI : 10.1002/rse2.373.
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Avian-Inspired Claws Enable Robot Perching or Walking

M. Askari; W. D. Shin; D. Lenherr; W. J. Stewart; D. Floreano 

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2023-11-21. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2023.3331357.

Reinforcement Learning for Outdoor Balloon Navigation: A Successful Controller for an Autonomous Balloon

S. L. Jeger; N. Lawrance; F. Achermann; O. Pang; M. Kovac et al. 

Ieee Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2023-06-08. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2023.3271203.
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A virtuous cycle between invertebrate and robotics research: perspective on a decade of Living Machines research

M. Mangan; D. Floreano; K. Yasui; B. Trimmer; N. Gravish et al. 

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. 2023-03-27. Vol. 18, num. 3, p. 035005. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/acc223.
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A Soft Gripper with Granular Jamming and Electroadhesive Properties

Y. Piskarev; A. Devincenti; V. Ramachandran; P-E. Bourban; M. Dickey et al. 

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2023-03-16. Vol. 5, num. 6, p. 2200409. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200409.
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Wind Defiant Morphing Drones

C. Vourtsis; V. C. Rochel; N. S. Mueller; W. Stewart; D. Floreano 

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2023-01-19. Vol. 5, num. 2200297. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200297.
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A Sprayable Electrically Conductive Edible Coating for Piezoresistive Strain Sensing

V. F. Annese; P. Cataldi; V. Galli; G. Coco; J. P. V. Damasceno et al. 

Advanced Sensor Research. 2023.  p. 2300150. DOI : 10.1002/adsr.202300150.
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An Edible Bistable Tilt Sensor Enabling Autonomous Operation of a Partially Eatable Rolling Robot

V. F. Annese; B. Kwak; G. Coco; V. Galli; I. K. Ilic et al. 

Advanced Sensor Research. 2023. num. 2300092, p. 9. DOI : 10.1002/adsr.202300092.
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The evolution of behavioral cues and signaling in displaced communication

A. Bernard; S. Wischmann; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

PLOS Computational Biology. 2023. Vol. 19, num. 3, p. e1010487. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010487.

2022

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Robotic Avian Wing Explains Aerodynamic Advantages of Wing Folding and Stroke Tilting in Flapping Flight

E. Ajanic; A. Paolini; C. Coster; D. Floreano; C. Johansson 

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2022-12-23. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200148.

How ornithopters can perch autonomously on a branch

R. Zufferey; J. Tormo-Barbero; D. Feliu-Talegon; S. R. Nekoo; J. A. Acosta et al. 

Nature Communications. 2022-12-13. Vol. 13, num. 1, p. 7713. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-022-35356-5.
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Sharp turning maneuvers with avian-inspired wing and tail morphing

E. Ajanic; M. Feroskhan; V. Wüest; D. Floreano 

Communication Engineering. 2022-11-24.  p. 10.1038/s44172-022-00035-2. DOI : 10.1038/s44172-022-00035-2.

What we look for at Science Robotics

B. J. Nelson; P. Dupont; D. Floreano; K. Goldberg; H. Gu et al. 

Science Robotics. 2022-10-26. Vol. 7, num. 71, p. eade5834. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.ade5834.
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Reconfigurable Drone System for Transportation of Parcels With Variable Mass and Size

F. Schiano; P. M. Kornatowski; L. Cencetti; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics And Automation Letters. 2022-10-01. Vol. 7, num. 4, p. 12150-12157. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2022.3208716.
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Elastic-Actuation Mechanism for Repetitive Hopping Based on Power Modulation and Cyclic Trajectory Generation

W. D. Shin; W. Stewart; M. A. Estrada; A. J. Ijspeert; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2022-07-27. Vol. 39, num. 1, p. 558-571. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2022.3189249.
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Machine-Learning Based Monitoring of Cognitive Workload in Rescue Missions with Drones

F. Dell’Agnola; P-K. Jao; A. Arza; R. Chavarriaga; J. d. R. Millan et al. 

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 2022-06-29.  p. 1-12. DOI : 10.1109/JBHI.2022.3186625.
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Dual Stiffness Tensegrity Platform for Resilient Robotics

D. Zappetti; Y. Sun; M. Gevers; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2022-05-13.  p. 2200025. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200025.
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Enhancement of Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive by CO2 Laser Treatment

Y. Piskarev; E. Desbouis; V. Ramachandran; J. Yang; N. Baugh et al. 

Advanced Engineering Materials. 2022-05-06. num. 2200355. DOI : 10.1002/adem.202200355.
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Swarms of flying robots in unknown environments

E. Soria 

Science Robotics. 2022-05-04. Vol. 7, num. 66, p. eabq2215. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.abq2215.
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On the Scalability of Vision-based Drone Swarms in the Presence of Occlusions

F. Schilling; E. Soria; D. Floreano 

IEEE Access. 2022-03-10. Vol. 10, p. 1-14. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3158758.
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A Variable Stiffness Magnetic Catheter Made of a Conductive Phase-Change Polymer for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Y. Piskarev; J. Shintake; C. Chautems; J. Lussi; Q. Boehler et al. 

Advanced Functional Materials. 2022-02-06.  p. 1-11, 2107662. DOI : 10.1002/adfm.202107662.
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How to Swoop and Grasp Like a Bird With a Passive Claw for a High-Speed Grasping

W. Stewart; E. Ajanic; M. Muller; D. Floreano 

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2022-01-31.  p. 1-9. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2022.3143095.
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Arm-wrist haptic sleeve for drone teleoperation

V. Ramachandran; M. Macchini; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 4, p. 12054-12061. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3122107.
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How to compete with robots by assessing job automation risks and resilient alternatives

A. Paolillo; F. Colella; N. Nosengo; F. Schiano; W. J. Stewart et al. 

Science Robotics. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 65, p. eabg5561. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.abg5561.
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Autonomous Detection and Deterrence of Pigeons on Buildings by Drones

F. Schiano; D. Natter; D. Zambrano; D. Floreano 

IEEE Access. 2022. Vol. 10, p. 1745-1755. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3137031.
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Distributed Predictive Drone Swarms in Cluttered Environments

E. Soria; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 73-80. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3118091.

2021

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Passive Perching with Energy Storage for Winged Aerial Robots

W. Stewart; L. Guarino; Y. Piskarev; D. Floreano 

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2021-11-21.  p. 2100150. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202100150.
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Robotic Elytra: Insect-Inspired Protective Wings for Resilient and Multi-Modal Drones

C. Vourtsis; W. Stewart; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021-10-27. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 223-230. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3123378.
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Personalized Human-Swarm Interaction Through Hand Motion

M. Macchini; L. De Matteis; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

Ieee Robotics And Automation Letters. 2021-10-01. Vol. 6, num. 4, p. 8341-8348. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3102324.
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Smart Textiles that Teach: Fabric‐Based Haptic Device Improves the Rate of Motor Learning

V. Ramachandran; F. Schilling; A. R. Wu; D. Floreano 

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2021-07-10.  p. 2100043. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202100043.
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Insect Inspired Self-Righting for Fixed-Wing Drones

C. Vourtsis; R. V. Casas; F. R. Serrano; W. J. Stewart; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021-07-09. Vol. 6, num. 4, p. 6805-6812. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3096159.
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Stretchable and Soft Electroadhesion Using Liquid‐Metal Subsurface Microelectrodes

S. Park; J. Shintake; Y. Piskarev; Y. Wei; I. Joshipura et al. 

Advanced Materials Technologies. 2021-06-25.  p. 2100263. DOI : 10.1002/admt.202100263.
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Conditions for the emergence of circumnutations in plant roots

I. Loshchilov; E. Del Dottore; B. Mazzolai; D. Floreano 

PLOS One. 2021-05-26. Vol. 16, num. 5, p. e0252202. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0252202.
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Predictive control of aerial swarms in cluttered environments

E. Soria; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

Nature Machine Intelligence. 2021-05-17. Vol. 3, p. 545–554. DOI : 10.1038/s42256-021-00341-y.
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VIODE: A Simulated Dataset to Address the Challenges of Visual-Inertial Odometry in Dynamic Environments

K. Minoda; F. Schilling; V. Wüest; D. Floreano; T. Yairi 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021-03-15. Vol. 6, num. 2, p. 1343-1350. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3058073.
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Vision-based Drone Flocking in Outdoor Environments

F. Schilling; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021-02-25. Vol. 6, num. 2, p. 2954-2961. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3062298.
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Tracking and Relative Localization of Drone Swarms With a Vision-Based Headset

M. Pavliv; F. Schiano; C. Reardon; D. Floreano; G. Loianno 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021-01-14. Vol. 6, num. 2, p. 1455-1462. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3051565.
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From individual robots to robot societies

D. Floreano; H. Lipson 

Science Robotics. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 56, p. eabk2787. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.abk2787.

2020

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Design Optimization of Soft Robots

S. G. Nurzaman; L. Wang; F. Iida; J. Lipton; D. Floreano et al. 

Ieee Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2020-12-01. Vol. 27, num. 4, p. 10-11. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2020.3028658.
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Bioinspired wing and tail morphing extends drone flight capabilities

E. Ajanic; M. Feroskhan; S. Mintchev; F. Noca; D. Floreano 

Science Robotics. 2020-10-28. Vol. 5, num. 47, p. eabc2897. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.abc2897.
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Lighter and Stronger: Cofabricated Electrodes and Variable Stiffness Elements in Dielectric Actuators

Y. Piskarev; J. Shintake; V. Ramachandran; N. Baugh; M. D. Dickey et al. 

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2020-07-23. Vol. 2, num. 10, p. 1-8, 2000069. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202000069.
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Downside Up:Rethinking Parcel Position for Aerial Delivery

P. M. Kornatowski; M. Feroskhan; W. J. Stewart; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2020-05-11. Vol. 5, num. 3, p. 4297-4304. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2020.2993768.
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A Morphing Cargo Drone for Safe Flight in Proximity of Humans

P. M. Kornatowski; M. Feroskhan; W. J. Stewart; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2020-05-11. Vol. 5, num. 3, p. 4233-4240. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2020.2993757.
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Variable-stiffness tensegrity spine

D. Zappetti; R. Arandes Vilagrasa; E. Ajanic; D. Floreano 

Smart Materials and Structures. 2020-04-09. Vol. 29, num. 7, p. 075013. DOI : 10.1088/1361-665X/ab87e0.
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Phase Changing Materials-Based Variable-Stiffness Tensegrity Structures

D. Zappetti; S. H. Jeoung; J. Shintake; D. Floreano 

Soft Robotics. 2020. Vol. 7, num. 3, p. 362-369. DOI : 10.1089/soro.2019.0091.

2019

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Personalized Telerobotics by Fast Machine Learning of Body-Machine Interfaces

M. Macchini; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2019-10-31.  p. 1-1. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2019.2950816.
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Haptic feedback perception and learning with cable-driven guidance in exosuit teleoperation of a simulated drone

C. Rognon; V. Ramachandran; A. Wu; A. Ijspeert; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Haptics. 2019-09-19. Vol. 12, num. 3, p. 375-385. DOI : 10.1109/TOH.2019.2925612.
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A Magnetic Continuum Device with Variable Stiffness for Minimally Invasive Surgery

C. Chautems; A. Tonazzini; Q. Boehler; D. Floreano; B. Nelson 

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2019-09-11. Vol. 2, num. 6, p. 1900086. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.201900086.
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Stretchable pumps for soft machines

V. Cacucciolo; J. Shintake; Y. Kuwajima; S. Maeda; D. Floreano et al. 

Nature. 2019-08-22. Vol. 572, p. 516–519. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-019-1479-6.
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Learning Vision-based Flight in Drone Swarms by Imitation

F. Schilling; J. Lecoeur; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2019-08-14. Vol. 4, num. 4, p. 4523-4530. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2019.2935377.
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Cross-Packet Coding for Delay-Constrained Streaming Applications

G. Cocco; D. Floreano 

IEEE Communications Letters. 2019-08-12. Vol. 23, num. 11, p. 1962-1966. DOI : 10.1109/LCOMM.2019.2934684.
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The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics

J. Delmerico; S. Mintchev; A. Giusti; B. Gromov; K. Melo et al. 

Journal of Field Robotics. 2019-08-07. Vol. 36, num. 7, p. 1171-1191. DOI : 10.1002/rob.21887.
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Soft haptic device to render the sensation of flying like a drone

C. Rognon; M. Koehler; C. Duriez; D. Floreano; A. M. Okamura 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2019-07-01. Vol. 4, num. 3, p. 2524-2531. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2019.2907432.
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The role of optic flow pooling in insect flight control in cluttered environments

J. Lecoeur; M. Dacke; D. Floreano; E. Baird 

Scientific Reports. 2019-05-22. Vol. 9, num. 1, p. 7707. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-019-44187-2.
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The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Squeeze and Fly

D. Falanga; K. Kleber; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano; D. Scaramuzza 

Ieee Robotics And Automation Letters. 2019-04-01. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 209-216. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2885575.
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Inquiry-Based Learning with RoboGen: An Open-Source Software and Hardware Platform for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

J. E. Auerbach; A. Concordel; P. M. Kornatowski; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. 2019. Vol. 12, num. 3, p. 356-369. DOI : 10.1109/TLT.2018.2833111.

2018

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All‐Fabric Wearable Electroadhesive Clutch

V. Ramachandran; J. Shintake; D. Floreano 

Advanced Materials Technologies. 2018-10-23. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 1800313. DOI : 10.1002/admt.201800313.
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Soft Biomimetic Fish Robot Made of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

J. Shintake; V. Cacucciolo; H. Shea; D. Floreano 

Soft Robotics. 2018-06-29. Vol. 5, num. 4, p. 466-474. DOI : 10.1089/soro.2017.0062.
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Spatial Encoding of Translational Optic Flow in Planar Scenes by Elementary Motion Detector Arrays

J. Lecoeur; E. Baird; D. Floreano 

Scientific Reports. 2018-04-11. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. 5821. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-018-24162-z.
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Forceful manipulation with micro air vehicles

M. A. Estrada; S. Mintchev; D. L. Christensen; M. R. Cutkosky; D. Floreano 

Science Robotics. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 23, p. eaau6903. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.aau6903.
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Last-Centimeter Personal Drone Delivery: Field Deployment and User Interaction

P. Kornatowski; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 4, p. 3813-3820. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2856282.
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Bioinspired dual-stiffness origami

S. Mintchev; J. Shintake; D. Floreano 

Science Robotics. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 20, p. eaau0275. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.aau0275.
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Data-driven body–machine interface for the accurate control of drones

J. C. Miehlbradt; A. T. Cherpillod; S. Mintchev; M. Coscia; F. Artoni et al. 

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2018.  p. 201718648. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1718648115.
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FlyJacket: An Upper Body Soft Exoskeleton for Immersive Drone Control

C. Rognon; S. Mintchev; F. I. T. Dell’Agnola; A. T. Cherpillod; D. Atienza Alonso et al. 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 3, p. 2362-2369. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2810955.
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Soft Robotic Grippers

J. Shintake; V. Cacucciolo; D. Floreano; H. Shea 

Advanced Materials. 2018. Vol. 30, num. 29, p. 1707035. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201707035.
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Ultra-stretchable strain sensors using carbon black-filled elastomer composites and comparison of capacitive versus resistive sensors

J. Shintake; Y. Piskarev; S. Jeong; D. Floreano 

Advanced Materials Technologies. 2018. Vol. 3, p. 1700284. DOI : 10.1002/admt.201700284.

2017

Radio Resource Management Optimization of Flexible Satellite Payloads for DVB-S2 Systems

G. Cocco; T. De Cola; M. Angelone; Z. Katona; S. Erl 

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. 2017.  p. 1-15. DOI : 10.1109/TBC.2017.2755263.

Localization of emergency acoustic sources by micro aerial vehicles

M. Basiri; F. Schill; P. Lima; D. Floreano 

Journal of Field Robotics. 2017. Vol. 35, num. 2, p. 187-201. DOI : 10.1002/rob.21733.

Disentangling constraints using viability evolution principles in integrative modeling of macromolecular assemblies

G. E. Tamo; A. Maesani; S. Träger; M. Degiacomi; D. Floreano et al. 

Scientific Reports. 2017. Vol. 7, p. 235. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-017-00266-w.

Insect-Inspired Mechanical Resilience for Multicopters

S. Mintchev; S. D. de Rivaz; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2017. Vol. 2, p. 1248-1255. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2017.2658946.

Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits

P. Ramdya; R. Thandiackal; R. Cherney; T. Asselborn; R. Benton et al. 

Nature Communications. 2017. Vol. 8, p. 14494. DOI : 10.1038/ncomms14494.

Bioinspired morphing wings for extended flight envelope and roll control of small drones

M. di Luca; S. Mintchev; G. H. M. Heitz; F. Noca; D. Floreano 

Interface Focus. 2017. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 20160092. DOI : 10.1098/rsfs.2016.0092.

Human-Comfortable Collision Free Navigation for Personal Aerial Vehicles

N. Dousse; G. H. M. Heitz; F. S. Schill; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter. 2017. Vol. 2, num. 1, p. 358-365. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2016.2626520.

2016

Investigation of Collective Behaviour and Electrocommunication in the Weakly Electric Fish, Mormyrus rume, through a biomimetic Robotic Dummy Fish

E. Donati; M. Worm; S. Mintchev; M. Van Der Wiel; G. Benelli et al. 

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2016. Vol. 11, num. 6, p. 066009. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/11/6/066009.

Extension of a ground control interface for swarms of Small Drones

N. Dousse; G. Heitz; D. Floreano 

Artificial Life And Robotics. 2016. Vol. 21, num. 3, p. 308-316. DOI : 10.1007/s10015-016-0302-9.

Comparative Study of Haptic Interfaces for Bilateral Teleoperation of VTOL Aerial Robots

X. Hou; R. Mahony; F. Schill 

Ieee Transactions On Systems Man Cybernetics-Systems. 2016. Vol. 46, num. 10, p. 1352-1363. DOI : 10.1109/Tsmc.2015.2503396.

Variable Stiffness Fiber with Self-Healing Capability

A. Tonazzini; S. Mintchev; B. Schubert; B. Mazzolai; J. Shintake et al. 

Advanced Materials. 2016. Vol. 28, num. 46, p. 10105. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201602580.

Adaptive Morphology: A Design Principle for Multimodal and Multifunctional Robots

S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2016. Vol. 23, num. 3, p. 42-54. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2016.2580593.

Soft compliant gripper for safe manipulation of extremely fragile objects

H. Shea; J. Shintake; D. Floreano 

SPIE Newsroom. 2016. DOI : 10.1117/2.1201603.006409.

On-Board Relative Bearing Estimation for Teams of Drones Using Sound

M. Basiri; F. S. Schill; P. Lima; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2016. Vol. 1, num. 2, p. 820-827. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2016.2527833.

A method for ego-motion estimation in micro-hovering platforms flying in very cluttered environments

A. Briod; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Autonomous Robots. 2016. Vol. 40, p. 789–803. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-015-9494-4.

Versatile soft grippers with intrinsic electroadhesion based on multifunctional polymer actuators

J. Shintake; S. Rosset; B. E. Schubert; D. Floreano; H. Shea 

Advanced Materials. 2016. Vol. 28, num. 2, p. 231-238. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201504264.

Memetic Viability Evolution for Constrained Optimization

A. Maesani; G. Iacca; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2016. Vol. 20, num. 1, p. 125-144. DOI : 10.1109/TEVC.2015.2428292.

Dynamic Routing for Flying Ad Hoc Networks

S. Rosati; K. Kruzelecki; G. H. M. Heitz; D. Floreano; B. Rimoldi 

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 2016. Vol. 65, num. 3, p. 1690-1700. DOI : 10.1109/TVT.2015.2414819.

2015

Fluctuation-driven neural dynamics reproduce Drosophila locomotor patterns

A. Maesani; P. Ramdya; S. Cruchet; K. Gustafson; R. Benton et al. 

Plos Computational Biology. 2015. Vol. 11, num. 11, p. e1004577. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004577.

An artificial elementary eye with optic flow detection and compositional properties

R. Pericet-Camara; M. K. Dobrzynski; R. Juston; S. Viollet; R. Leitel et al. 

Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2015. Vol. 12, p. 20150414. DOI : 10.1098/rsif.2015.0414.

Evaluation of control strategies for fixed-wing drones following slow-moving ground agents

M. Varga; J-C. Zufferey; G. H. M. Heitz; D. Floreano 

Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2015. Vol. 72, p. 285-294. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2015.06.003.

Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones

D. Floreano; R. J. Wood 

Nature. 2015. Vol. 521, p. 460-466. DOI : 10.1038/nature14542.

A small-scale hyperacute compound eye featuring active eye tremor: application to visual stabilization, target tracking, and short-range odometry

F. Colonnier; A. Manecy; R. Juston; H. Mallot; R. Leitel et al. 

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2015. Vol. 10, num. 2, p. 026002. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/10/2/026002.

Performance analysis of jump-gliding locomotion for miniature robotics

A. Vidyasagar; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano; M. Kovac 

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2015. Vol. 10, p. 025006. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/10/2/025006.

A bioinspired multi-modal flying and walking robot

L. Daler; S. Mintchev; C. Stefanini; D. Floreano 

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2015. Vol. 10, num. 1, p. 016005. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/10/1/016005.

Mechanosensory interactions drive collective behaviour in Drosophila

P. Ramdya; P. Lichocki; S. Cruchet; L. Frisch; W. Tse et al. 

Nature. 2015. Vol. 519, p. 233-236. DOI : 10.1038/nature14024.

A Foldable Antagonistic Actuator

J. Shintake; S. Rosset; B. E. Schubert; D. Floreano; H. Shea 

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2015. Vol. 20, num. 5, p. 1997-2008. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2014.2359337.

Rollable Multisegment Dielectric Elastomer Minimum Energy Structures for a Deployable Microsatellite Gripper

S. Araromi; I. Gavrilovich; J. Shintake; S. Rosset; M. Richard et al. 

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2015. Vol. 20, num. 1, p. 438. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2014.2329367.

2014

Hardware Architecture and Cutting-Edge Assembly Process of a Tiny Curved Compound Eye

S. Viollet; S. Godiot; R. Leitel; W. Buss; P. Breugnon et al. 

Sensors. 2014. Vol. 14, num. 11, p. 21702-21721. DOI : 10.3390/s141121702.

Takashi Gomi and the evolution of embodied AI

D. Floreano 

Adaptive Behavior. 2014.  p. 1059712314553807. DOI : 10.1177/1059712314553807.

Soft Cells for Programmable Self-Assembly of Robotic Modules

J. M. Germann; A. Maesani; R. Pericet Camara; D. Floreano 

Soft Robotics. 2014. Vol. 1, num. 4, p. 239-245. DOI : 10.1089/soro.2014.0005.

Artificial Evolution by Viability Rather Than Competition

A. Maesani; P. R. Fernando; D. Floreano 

PLOS One. 2014. Vol. 9, num. 1, p. e86831. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0086831.

Selection methods regulate evolution of cooperation in digital evolution

P. Lichocki; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2014. Vol. 11, num. 90, p. 20130743. DOI : 10.1098/rsif.2013.0743.

A Collision Resilient Flying Robot

A. Briod; P. M. Kornatowski; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Journal of Field Robotics. 2014. Vol. 31, num. 4, p. 469-509. DOI : 10.1002/rob.21495.

2013

Variable stiffness material based on rigid low-melting-point-alloy-microstructures embedded in soft poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS)

B. E. Schubert; D. Floreano 

RSC Advances. 2013. Vol. 3, num. 46, p. 24671-24679. DOI : 10.1039/c3ra44412k.

Miniature curved artificial compound eyes

D. Floreano; R. Pericet Camara; S. Viollet; F. Ruffier; A. Brückner et al. 

PNAS. 2013. Vol. 110, num. 23, p. 9332-9337. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1219068110.

Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms

M. Dorigo; D. Floreano; L. Gambardella; F. Mondada; S. Nolfi et al. 

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2013. Vol. 20, num. 4, p. 60-71. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2013.2252996.

Evolving team compositions by agent swapping

P. Lichocki; S. Wischmann; L. Keller; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2013. Vol. 17, num. 2, p. 282-298. DOI : 10.1109/TEVC.2012.2191292.

2012

Fluorescence Behavioral Imaging (FBI) tracks identity in heterogeneous groups of Drosophila

P. P. Ramdya; T. Schaffter; D. Floreano; R. Benton 

PLOS One. 2012. Vol. 7, num. 11, p. e48381. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0048381.

Quantifying information transfer through a head attached vibrotactile display: principles for design and control

M. Dobrzynski; S. Mejri; S. Wischmann; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2012. Vol. 59, num. 7, p. 2011-2018. DOI : 10.1109/TBME.2012.2196433.

An Active Uprighting Mechanism for Flying Robots

A. Klaptocz; L. Daler; A. Briod; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2012. Vol. 28, num. 5, p. 1152 -1157. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2012.2201309.

Historical contingency affects signaling strategies and competitive abilities in evolving populations of simulated robots

S. Wischmann; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

PNAS. 2012. Vol. 109, num. 3, p. 864-868. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1104267109.

Neural networks as mechanisms to regulate division of labor

P. Lichocki; D. Tarapore; L. Keller; D. Floreano 

The American Naturalist. 2012. Vol. 179, num. 3, p. 391-400. DOI : 10.1086/664079.

An Active Connection Mechanism for Soft Modular Robots

J. M. Germann; M. Dommer; R. Pericet Camara; D. Floreano 

Advanced Robotics. 2012. Vol. 26, num. 7, p. 785-798. DOI : 10.1163/156855312X626325.

Vision Tape – a flexible compound vision sensor for motion detection and proximity estimation

M. Dobrzynski; R. Pericet Camara; D. Floreano 

IEEE Sensors Journal. 2012. Vol. 12, num. 5, p. 1131-1139. DOI : 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2166760.

3-D Relative Positioning Sensor for Indoor Flying Robots

J. Roberts; T. Stirling; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Autonomous Robots. 2012. Vol. 33, num. 1-2, p. 5-20. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-012-9277-0.

2011

Enhancing the Specular Effect of Metallic Color Prints by Reducing the Use of Yellow Ink

T. Bugnon; A. Maesani; R. D. Hersch 

Journal Of Imaging Science And Technology. 2011. Vol. 55, num. 6, p. 060506-1-060506-9. DOI : 10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2011.55.6.060506.

Complementary Function and Integrated Wiring of the Evolutionarily Distinct Drosophila Olfactory Subsystems

A. F. Silbering; R. Rytz; Y. Grosjean; L. Abuin; P. Ramdya et al. 

Journal Of Neuroscience. 2011. Vol. 31, p. 13357-13375. DOI : 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2360-11.2011.

GeneNetWeaver: In silico benchmark generation and performance profiling of network inference methods

T. Schaffter; D. Marbach; D. Floreano 

Bioinformatics. 2011. Vol. 27, num. 16, p. 2263-2270. DOI : 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr373.

A Quantitative Test of Hamilton’s Rule for the Evolution of Altruism

M. Waibel; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

PLOS Biology. 2011. Vol. 9, num. 5, p. e1000615. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000615.

Beyond Graphs: A New Synthesis

C. Mattiussi; P. Dürr; D. Marbach; D. Floreano 

Journal of Computational Science. 2011. Vol. 2, num. 2, p. 165-177. DOI : 10.1016/j.jocs.2011.01.007.

Dealing with Mid-Air Collisions in Dense Collective Aerial Systems

S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Journal of Field Robotics. 2011. Vol. 28, num. 3, p. 405-423. DOI : 10.1002/rob.20385.

Relatedness influences signal reliability in evolving robots

S. Mitri; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 2011. Vol. 278, p. 378-383. DOI : 10.1098/rspb.2010.1407.

The Ethical Landscape of Robotics

P. Lichocki; P. Kahn Jr; A. Billard 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. 2011. Vol. 18, num. 1, p. 39-50. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2011.940275.

2010

Hyperelastic pressure sensing with a liquid-embedded elastomer

Y-L. Park; C. Majidi; R. Kramer; P. Berard; R. J. Wood 

Journal Of Micromechanics And Microengineering. 2010. Vol. 20, num. 12, p. 125029. DOI : 10.1088/0960-1317/20/12/125029.

Thermal soaring flight of birds and unmanned aerial vehicles

Z. Akos; N. Mate; S. Leven; T. Vicsek 

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. 2010. Vol. 5, num. 4, p. 1-12. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3182/5/4/045003.

Adaptive Sleep-Wake Discrimination for Wearable Devices

W. Karlen; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2010. Vol. 58, num. 4, p. 920-926. DOI : 10.1109/TBME.2010.2097261.

Insect Vision: A Few Tricks to Regulate Flight Altitude

D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey 

Current Biology. 2010. Vol. 20, num. 19, p. R847-R849. DOI : 10.1016/j.cub.2010.08.022.

Autonomous flight at low altitude using light sensors and little computational power

J-C. Zufferey; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles. 2010. Vol. 2, num. 2, p. 107-117. DOI : 10.1260/1756-8293.2.2.107.

Genetic representation and evolvability of modular neural controllers

P. Dürr; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. 2010. Vol. 5, num. 3, p. 10-19. DOI : 10.1109/MCI.2010.937319.

Revealing strengths and weaknesses of methods for gene network inference

D. Marbach; R. J. Prill; T. Schaffter; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano et al. 

PNAS. 2010. Vol. 107, num. 14, p. 6286-6291. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.0913357107.

A Perching Mechanism for Micro Aerial Vehicles

M. Kovac; J. M. Germann; C. Hürzeler; R. Siegwart; D. Floreano 

Journal of Micro-Nano Mechatronics. 2010. Vol. 5, num. 3-4, p. 77-91. DOI : 10.1007/s12213-010-0026-1.

Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection

D. Floreano; L. Keller 

PLOS Biology. 2010. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. e100029. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000292.

Energy-Efficient Indoor Search by Swarms of Simulated Flying Robots Without Global Information

T. Stirling; S. Wischmann; D. Floreano 

Swarm Intelligence. 2010. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 117-144. DOI : 10.1007/s11721-010-0039-3.

Task-dependent influence of genetic architecture and mating frequency on division of labour in social insect societies

D. Tarapore; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 2010. Vol. 64, p. 675-684. DOI : 10.1007/s00265-009-0885-4.

Steerable Miniature Jumping Robot

M. Kovac; M. Schlegel; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Autonomous Robots. 2010. Vol. 28, num. 3, p. 295-306. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-009-9173-4.

2009

Attentive Classification

S. Frintrop; A. Nüchter; K. Pevölz; H. Surmann; S. Mitri et al. 

International Journal of Applied Artifical Intelligence in Engineering System. 2009. Vol. 1, num. 1, p. 47-66.

Do animat models always need a biological target organism?

S. Wischmann 

Adaptive Behavior. 2009. Vol. 17, num. 4, p. 343-345. DOI : 10.1177/1059712309340861.

The Evolution of Information Suppression in Communicating Robots with Conflicting Interests

S. Mitri; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

PNAS. 2009. Vol. 106, num. 37, p. 15786-15790. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.0903152106.

Vision-based control of near-obstacle flight

A. Beyeler; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Autonomous Robots. 2009. Vol. 27, num. 3, p. 201-219. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-009-9139-6.

Evolutionary Selection of Features for Neural Sleep/Wake Discrimination

P. Dürr; W. Karlen; J. Guignard; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications. 2009. Vol. 2009, p. 1-10. DOI : 10.1155/2009/179680.

Generating Realistic In Silico Gene Networks for Performance Assessment of Reverse Engineering Methods

D. Marbach; T. Schaffter; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

Journal of Computational Biology. 2009. Vol. 16, num. 2, p. 229-239. DOI : 10.1089/cmb.2008.09TT.

Combining Multiple Results of a Reverse Engineering Algorithm: Application to the DREAM Five Gene Network Challenge

D. Marbach; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2009. Vol. 1158, p. 102-113. DOI : 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03945.x.

Sleep and Wake Classification With ECG and Respiratory Effort Signals

W. Karlen; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. 2009. Vol. 3, p. 71-78. DOI : 10.1109/TBCAS.2008.2008817.

Evolved swarming without positioning information: an application in aerial communication relay

S. Hauert; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Autonomous Robots. 2009. Vol. 26, num. 1, p. 21-32. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-008-9104-9.

Replaying the Evolutionary Tape: Biomimetic Reverse Engineering of Gene Networks

D. Marbach; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2009. Vol. 1158, p. 234-245. DOI : 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03944.x.

Genetic Team Composition and Level of Selection in the Evolution of Cooperation

M. Waibel; L. Keller; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2009. Vol. 13, num. 3, p. 648-660. DOI : 10.1109/TEVC.2008.2011741.

2008

Social Behavior: From Cooperation to Language

S. Mitri; J. Hubert; M. Waibel 

Biological Theory. 2008. Vol. 3, num. 2, p. 99-102. DOI : 10.1162/biot.2008.3.2.99.

Ant-based Swarming with Positionless Micro Air Vehicles for Communication Relay

S. Hauert; L. Winkler; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Swarm Intelligence. 2008. Vol. 2, num. 2-4, p. 167-188. DOI : 10.1007/s11721-008-0013-5.

The Age of Analog Networks

C. Mattiussi; D. Marbach; P. Dürr; D. Floreano 

AI Magazine. 2008. Vol. 29, num. 3, p. 63–76. DOI : 10.1609/aimag.v29i3.2156.

Neuroevolution: from architectures to learning

D. Floreano; P. Dürr; C. Mattiussi 

Evolutionary Intelligence. 2008. Vol. 1, num. 1, p. 47-62. DOI : 10.1007/s12065-007-0002-4.

Enactive Robot Vision

M. Suzuki; D. Floreano 

Adaptive Behavior. 2008. Vol. 16, num. 2-3, p. 122-128. DOI : 10.1177/1059712308089183.

2007

Arrays of microlenses with variable focal lengths fabricated by restructuring polymer surfaces with an ink-jet device

R. Pericet-Camara; A. Best; S. K. Nett; J. S. Gutmann; E. Bonaccurso 

Optics Express. 2007. Vol. 15, p. 9877-9882. DOI : 10.1364/OE.15.009877.

A 10-gram Vision-based Flying Robot

J-C. Zufferey; A. Klaptocz; A. Beyeler; J-D. Nicoud; D. Floreano 

Advanced Robotics. 2007. Vol. 21, num. 14, p. 1671-1684. DOI : 10.1163/156855307782227417.

Evolutionary morphogenesis for multi-cellular systems

D. Roggen; D. Federici; D. Floreano 

Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. 2007. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. 61-96. DOI : 10.1007/s10710-006-9019-1.

Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication in Robots

D. Floreano; S. Mitri; S. Magnenat; L. Keller 

Current Biology. 2007. Vol. 17, p. 514-519. DOI : 10.1016/j.cub.2007.01.058.

Analog Genetic Encoding for the Evolution of Circuits and Networks

C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2007. Vol. 11, num. 5, p. 596–607. DOI : 10.1109/TEVC.2006.886801.

2006

Flying over the Reality Gap: From Simulated to Real Indoor Airships

J-C. Zufferey; A. Guanella; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

Autonomous Robots. 2006. Vol. 21, num. 3, p. 243-254. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-006-9718-8.

Quantifying patterns of agent-environment interaction

D. Tarapore; M. Lungarella; G. Gomez 

Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2006. Vol. 54, num. 2, p. 150-158. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2005.09.024.

Division of labour and colony efficiency in social insects: effects of interactions between genetic architecture, colony kin structure and rate of perturbations

M. Waibel; D. Floreano; S. Magnenat; L. Keller 

Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 2006. Vol. 273, p. 1815-23. DOI : 10.1098/rspb.2006.3513.

Fly-inspired Visual Steering of an Ultralight Indoor Aircraft

J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2006. Vol. 22, num. 1, p. 137-146. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2005.858857.

Dynamic Perception after Visually Guided Grasping by a Human-Like Autonomous Robot

M. Suzuki; K. Noda; Y. Suga; T. Ogata; S. Sugano 

Advanced Robotics. 2006. Vol. 20, num. 2, p. 233-254. DOI : 10.1163/156855306775525785.

Evolution of Spiking Neural Circuits in Autonomous Mobile Robots

D. Floreano; Y. Epars; J-C. Zufferey; C. Mattiussi 

International Journal of Intelligent Systems. 2006. Vol. 21, num. 9, p. 1005-1024. DOI : 10.1002/int.20173.

2005

The Contribution of Active Body Movement to Visual Development in Evolutionary Robots

M. Suzuki; D. Floreano; E. A. Di Paolo 

Neural Networks. 2005. Vol. 18, num. 5/6, p. 656–665. DOI : 10.1016/j.neunet.2005.06.043.

From Wheels to Wings with Evolutionary Spiking Neurons

D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey; J-D. Nicoud 

Artificial Life. 2005. Vol. 11, num. 1-2, p. 121-138. DOI : 10.1162/1064546053278900.

The cooperation of swarm-bots: physical interactions in collective robotics

F. Mondada; L. Gambardella; D. Floreano; M. Dorigo 

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2005. Vol. 12, num. 2, p. 21-28. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2005.1458313.

Active Vision and Receptive Field Development in Evolutionary Robots

D. Floreano; M. Suzuki; C. Mattiussi 

Evolutionary Computation. 2005. Vol. 13, num. 4, p. 527–544. DOI : 10.1162/106365605774666912.

2004

SWARM-BOT: a New Distributed Robotic Concept

F. Mondada; G. C. Pettinaro; A. Guignard; I. Kwee; D. Floreano et al. 

Autonomous Robots. 2004. Vol. 17, num. 2-3, p. 193-221. DOI : 10.1023/B:AURO.0000033972.50769.1c.

Machine Self-Evolution

D. Floreano; F. Mondada; A. Perez-Uribe; D. Roggen 

YLEM journal. 2004. Vol. 24, num. 12, p. 4-10.

Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-bot

M. Dorigo; V. Trianni; E. Sahin; R. Groß; T. H. Labella et al. 

Autonomous Robots. 2004. Vol. 17, num. 2-3, p. 223-245. DOI : 10.1023/B:AURO.0000033973.24945.f3.

Coevolution of active vision and feature selection

D. Floreano; T. Kato; D. Marocco; E. Sauser 

Biological Cybernetics. 2004. Vol. 90, num. 3, p. 218–228. DOI : 10.1007/s00422-004-0467-5.

Measures of Diversity for Populations and Distances Between Individuals with Highly Reorganizable Genomes

C. Mattiussi; M. Waibel; D. Floreano 

Evolutionary Computation. 2004. Vol. 12, num. 4, p. 495–515. DOI : 10.1162/1063656043138923.

2003

Swarm-Bots: Swarm of Mobile Robots able to Self-Assemble and Self-Organize

S. Nolfi; J-L. Deneubourg; D. Floreano; L. M. Gambardella; F. Mondada et al. 

Ercim News. 2003. num. 53, p. 25-26.

2002

Neural Synthesis of Artificial Organisms through Evolution

S. Nolfi; D. Floreano 

Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2002. Vol. 6, num. 1, p. 31-37. DOI : 10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01812-X.

A Reference Discretization Strategy for the Numerical Solution of Physical Field Problems

C. Mattiussi 

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics. 2002. Vol. 121, p. 143-279. DOI : 10.1016/S1076-5670(02)80027-1.

2001

The Geometry of Time-Stepping

C. Mattiussi 

Progress in Electromagnetics Research. 2001. Vol. 32, p. 123-149. DOI : 10.2528/PIER00080105.

Evolution of Adaptive Synapses: Robots with Fast Adaptive Behavior in New Environments

J. Urzelai; D. Floreano 

Evolutionary Computation. 2001. Vol. 9, num. 4, p. 495-524. DOI : 10.1162/10636560152642887.

Transitive choices by a simple, fully connected, backpropagation neural network: implications for the comparative study of transitive inference

C. De Lillo; D. Floreano; F. Antinucci 

Animal Cognition. 2001. Vol. 4, p. 61-68. DOI : 10.1007/s100710100092.

Neural Morphogenesis, Synaptic Plasticity, and Evolution

D. Floreano; J. Urzelai 

Theory in Biosciences. 2001. Vol. 120, num. 3-4, p. 225-240. DOI : 10.1078/1431-7613-00042.

Evolution of Plastic Control Networks

D. Floreano; J. Urzelai 

Autonomous Robots. 2001. Vol. 11, num. 3, p. 311-317. DOI : 10.1023/A:1012459627968.

2000

Evolutionary robotics: developing robots through artificial evolution

S. Nolfi; D. Floreano 

ERCIM News. 2000. Vol. 42, p. 12-13.

Evolutionary Robots with on-line self-organization and behavioral fitness

D. Floreano; J. Urzelai 

Neural Networks. 2000. Vol. 13, num. 4-5, p. 431-443. DOI : 10.1016/S0893-6080(00)00032-0.

Artificial Evolution of Adaptive Software: An Application to Autonomous Robots

D. Floreano; J. Urzelai 

3D The Journal of Three dimensional images (in japanese). 2000. Vol. 14, num. 4, p. 64-69.

The Finite Volume, Finite Difference, and Finite Elements Methods as Numerical Methods for Physical Field Problems

C. Mattiussi 

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics. 2000. Vol. 113, p. 1-146. DOI : 10.1016/S1076-5670(00)80012-9.

1999

Learning of Variable-Resolution Cognitive maps for Autonomous Indoor Navigation

A. Arleo; J. d. R. Millán; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. 1999. Vol. 15, num. 6, p. 990-1000. DOI : 10.1109/70.817664.

Learning and Evolution

S. Nolfi; D. Floreano 

Autonomous Robots. 1999. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 89-113. DOI : 10.1023/A:1008973931182.

1998

Evolution, Modularity, and Emergence in Autonomous Robots

J. Urzelai; D. Floreano 

1998. 

Co-evolving predator and prey robots: Do ‘arm races’ arise in artificial evolution?

S. Nolfi; D. Floreano 

Artificial Life. 1998. Vol. 4, num. 4, p. 311-335. DOI : 10.1162/106454698568620.

Evolutionary Neurocontrollers for Autonomous Mobile Robots

D. Floreano; F. Mondada 

Neural Networks. 1998. Vol. 11, num. 7-8, p. 1461-1478. DOI : 10.1016/S0893-6080(98)00082-3.

Incremental Robot Shaping

J. Urzelai; D. Floreano; M. Dorigo; M. Colombetti 

Connection Science. 1998. Vol. 10, p. 341-360. DOI : 10.1080/095400998116486.

Contextually Guided Unsupervised Learning Using Local Multivariate Binary Processors

J. Kay; D. Floreano; W. Phillips 

Neural Networks. 1998. Vol. 11, num. 1, p. 117-140. DOI : 10.1016/S0893-6080(97)00110-X.

1997

An Analysis of Finite Volume, Finite Element, and Finite Difference Methods Using Some Concepts from Algebraic Topology

C. Mattiussi 

Journal of Computational Physics. 1997. Vol. 133, num. 2, p. 289-309. DOI : 10.1006/jcph.1997.5656.

1996

Evolution of Homing Navigation in a Real Mobile Robot

D. Floreano; F. Mondada 

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B : Cybernetics. 1996. Vol. 26, num. 3, p. 396-407. DOI : 10.1109/3477.499791.

1995

Evolution of neural control structures: Some experiments on mobile robots

F. Mondada; D. Floreano 

Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 1995. Vol. 16, num. 2-4, p. 183-195. DOI : 10.1016/0921-8890(96)81008-6.

A computational theory of learning visual features via contextual guidance

D. Floreano; W. Phillips; J. Kay 

Perception. 1995. Vol. 24S, p. 22.

1993

Eye tracking with a recurrent neural network

D. Floreano; D. Parisi; F. Antinucci; F. Natale 

Cognitive Systems. 1993. Vol. 3, p. 331-349.

Conference Papers

2023

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Training Efficient Controllers via Analytic Policy Gradient

N. Wiedemann; V. Wüest; A. Loquercio; M. Müller; D. Floreano et al. 

2023. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) “Embracing the Future: Making Robots for Humans”, London, May 29-June 2, 2023. p. 1349-1356. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160581.
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Design and manufacture of edible microfluidic logic gates

S. Zhang; B. Kwak; D. Floreano 

2023. 2023 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Singapore, April 3-7, 2023. DOI : 10.1109/RoboSoft55895.2023.10122039.

2022

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Electro-Adhesive Tubular Clutch for Variable-Stiffness Robots

Y. Sun; K. M. Digumarti; H. V. Phan; O. Aloui; D. Floreano 

2022-12-26. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, October 23-27, 2022. p. 9628-9634. DOI : 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9982098.
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A Lightweight Device for Energy Harvesting from Power Lines with a Fixed-Wing UAV

W. J. Stewart; D. Floreano; E. Ebeid 

2022-06-22. International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS 2022), Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 21-24, 2022. p. 86-93. DOI : 10.1109/ICUAS54217.2022.9836070.
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Unleashing Soft Modular Robots by means of a Bio-inspired Connection Strategy

D. Zappetti; W. J. Stewart; M. Boutot; D. Floreano 

2022-04-04. 5th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Edinburgh, Scotland, April 4-8, 2022. p. 553-558. DOI : 10.1109/RoboSoft54090.2022.9762069.

VIO-UWB-Based Collaborative Localization and Dense Scene Reconstruction within Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems

J. P. Queralta; Q. Li; F. Schiano; T. Westerlund 

2022-01-01. 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics, Guilin, PEOPLES R CHINA, Jul 09-11, 2022. p. 87-94. DOI : 10.1109/ICARM54641.2022.9959470.
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Slip Anticipation for Grasping Deformable Objects Using a Soft Force Sensor

E. J. K. Judd; B. Aksoy; K. M. Digumarti; H. Shea; D. Floreano 

2022. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27, 2022. p. 10003-10008. DOI : 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981174.
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Accurate Vision-based Flight with Fixed-Wing Drones

V. Wüest; E. Ajanic; M. Müller; D. Floreano 

2022. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022), Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27, 2022. DOI : 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981921.
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Towards edible drones for rescue missions: design and flight of nutritional wings

B. Kwak; J. Shintake; l. Zhang; D. Floreano 

2022. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27, 2022. p. 1802-1809. DOI : 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981956.

2021

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Does spontaneous motion lead to intuitive Body-Machine Interfaces? A fitness study of different body segments for wearable telerobotics

M. Macchini; J. Frogg; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

2021-08-08. 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2021), Online, August 8-12, 2021. p. 115-121. DOI : 10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900570.
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The Impact of Virtual Reality and Viewpoints in Body Motion Based Drone Teleoperation

M. Macchini; M. Lortkipanidze; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

2021-03-27. IEEE VR 2021, Lisbon, Portugal, March 27 – April 3, 2021. p. 511-518. DOI : 10.1109/VR50410.2021.00075.
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Seeking Quality Diversity in Evolutionary Co-design of Morphology and Control of Soft Tensegrity Modular Robots

E. Zardini; D. Zappetti; D. Zambrano; G. Iacca; D. Floreano 

2021. The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2021), Lille, France (virtual conference), July 10-14, 2021. DOI : 10.1145/3449639.3459311.

2020

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UWB-based system for UAV Localization in GNSS-Denied Environments: Characterization and Dataset

J. P. Queralta; C. Martinez Almansa; F. Schiano; D. Floreano; T. Westerlund 

2020-11-25. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, USA (but held online), October 25-29, 2020. p. 4521-4528. DOI : 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341042.
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Hand-worn Haptic Interface for Drone Teleoperation

M. Macchini; T. Havy; A. Weber; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

2020-06-01. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), virtual conference (originally Paris, France), 1 June 2020 (originally 31 May – 4 Jun). p. 10212-10218. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196664.
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Bio-Inspired Tensegrity Fish Robot

J. Shintake; D. Zappetti; T. Peter; Y. Ikemoto; D. Floreano 

2020-05-29. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), virtual conference (originally Paris, France), 1-5 June 2020 (originally 31 May – 4 Jun). p. 2887-2892. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196675.
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Drone-aided Localization in LoRa IoT Networks

V. Delafontaine; F. Schiano; G. Cocco; A. Rusu; D. Floreano 

2020-05-11. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), virtual conference (originally Paris, France), 1-5 June 2020 (originally 31 May – 4 Jun). p. 286-292. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196869.
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SwarmLab: a MATLAB Drone Swarm Simulator

E. Soria; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

2020. 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, USA (but held online), Octobre 25-29, 2020. p. 8005-8011. DOI : 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9340854.

2019

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Perception of a Wearable Haptic Feedback Device to Render the Sensation of Flight

C. Rognon; M. Koehler; D. Floreano; A. M. Okamura 

2019-01-01. IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Tokyo, JAPAN, Jul 09-12, 2019. p. 61-66. DOI : 10.1109/WHC.2019.8816126.
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Embodied Flight with a Drone

A. T. Cherpillod; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

2019. 2019 Third IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), Naples, Italy, February 25-27, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/IRC.2019.00070.
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The influence of limited visual sensing on the Reynolds flocking algorithm

E. Soria; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

2019. The Third IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing, Naples, Italy, February 25-27, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/IRC.2019.00028.

2018

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Wall-contact sliding control strategy for a 2D caged quadrotor

P. Bai; B. Guerreiro; R. Cunha; P. M. Kornatowski; D. Floreano et al. 

2018-10-17. 18th International Conference on Control, Automation, and Systems, PyeongChang, GangWon Province, Korea, October 17-20, 2018. p. 291-296.
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Variable stiffness strip with strain sensing for wearable robotics

A. Tonazzini; J. Shintake; C. Rognon; V. Ramachandran; S. Mintchev et al. 

2018-07-09. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Livorno, April 24-28, 2018. p. 485-490. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOSOFT.2018.8405373.
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A Soft Robot for Random Exploration of Terrestrial Environments

S. Mintchev; D. Zappetti; J. Willemin; D. Floreano 

2018-06-15. International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia, 21-25 May 2018. p. 7492-7497. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460667.
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Wall-contact sliding control strategy for a 2D caged quadrotor

P. Bai; B. Guerreiro; R. Cunha; P. Kornatowski; D. Floreano et al. 

2018-01-01. 18th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), SOUTH KOREA, Oct 17-20, 2018. p. 291-296.
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Haptic Guidance with a Soft Exoskeleton Reduces Error in Drone Teleoperation

C. Rognon; A. R. Wu; S. Mintchev; A. Ijspeert; D. Floreano 

2018-01-01. 11th International Conference on Haptics – Science, Technology, and Applications (EuroHaptics), Pisa, ITALY, Jun 13-16, 2018. p. 404-415. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-93399-3_35.
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A multi-modal hovering and terrestrial robot with adaptive morphology

S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

2018. 2nd International Symposium on Aerial Robotics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, June 11-12, 2018.
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Haptic Guidance with a Soft Exoskeleton Reduces Error in Drone Teleoperation

C. Rognon; A. Wu; S. Mintchev; A. Ijspeert; D. Floreano 

2018. Eurohaptics 2018, Pisa, Italy, June 13-16 2018. p. 404–415. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-93399-3_35.

2017

A Variable Stiffness Catheter Controlled with an External Magnetic Field

C. Chautems; A. Tonazzini; D. Floreano; B. Nelson 

2017. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 24–28, 2017. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2017.8202155.

Bio-inspired Tensegrity Soft Modular Robots

D. Zappetti; S. Mintchev; J. Shintake; D. Floreano 

2017. Living Machines 2017, Palo Alto, California, USA, July 25-28, 2017. p. 497-508. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-63537-8_42.

Development of Bio-inspired Underwater Robot with Adaptive Morphology Capable of Multiple Swimming Modes

T. A. P. Paschal; J. Shintake; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

2017. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vancouver, Canada, September 24–28, 2017. p. 4197-4202. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2017.8206281.
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Soft Pneumatic Gelatin Actuator for Edible Robotics

J. Shintake; H. A. Sonar; Y. Piskarev; J. Paik; D. Floreano 

2017. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vancouver, Canada, September 24–28. p. 6221-6226. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2017.8206525.

An origami-inspired cargo drone

P. M. Kornatowski; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

2017. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vancouver, September 24-28, 2017. p. 6855-6862. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2017.8206607.

One Constraint at a Time: Using Viability Principles in Integrative Modeling of Macromolecular Assemblies

G. E. Tamo; A. Maesani; S. Traeger; M. T. Degiacomi; D. Floreano et al. 

2017. 58th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical-Society, San Francisco, CA, FEB 15-19, 2014. p. 289A-289A. DOI : 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.11.1567.

Foldable Drones: from Biology to Technology

D. Floreano; S. Mintchev; J. Shintake 

2017. SPIE Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication, Portland, Oregon, March 2017. p. 1016203-1-1016203-6. DOI : 10.1117/12.2259931.

2016

Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments

D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey; A. Klaptocz; J. Germann; M. Kovac 

2016. 15th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR), Flagstaff, AZ, DEC 09-12, 2011. p. 21-39. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-29363-9_2.

A novel fluid driven, foldable joint for Minimally Invasive Surgery

M. Mencattelli; A. Tonazzini; I. Martinelli; M. Menchicchi; C. Stefanini 

2016. 6th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), SINGAPORE, JUN 26-29, 2016. p. 335-340. DOI : 10.1109/BIOROB.2016.7523648.

Biomimetic Underwater Robots Based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

J. Shintake; H. Shea; D. Floreano 

2016. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Daejeon, Korea, October 9-14. p. 4957-4962. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759728.

A Pocket Sized Foldable Quadcopter for Situational Awareness and Reconnaissance

S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

2016. International Symposium on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2016), Lausanne, Switzerland, October 23-27th, 2016. p. 396-401. DOI : 10.1109/SSRR.2016.7784333.

A Drone with Insect-Inspired Folding Wings

L. Dufour; K. Owen; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

2016. 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS, Daejeon, Korea, October 9-14, 2016. p. 1576-1581. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759255.

Evolution in Cognition 2016 Chairs’ Welcome

S. Doncieux; J. E. Auerbach; R. J. Duro; H. P. De Vladar 

2016. GECCO ’16, Denver, Colorado, USA, 20-24 07 2016. p. 1043-1045. DOI : 10.1145/2908961.2931670.

Darwinian Dynamics of Embodied Chaotic Exploration

Y. Shim; J. E. Auerbach; P. Husbands 

2016. GECCO ’16, Denver, Colorado, USA, 20-24 07 2016. p. 1053-1056. DOI : 10.1145/2908961.2931673.

Gaining Insight into Quality Diversity

J. E. Auerbach; G. Iacca; D. Floreano 

2016. GECCO ’16, Denver, Colorado, USA, 20-24 07 2016. p. 1061-1064. DOI : 10.1145/2908961.2931675.

The Seamless Peer and Cloud Evolution Framework

G. Leclerc; J. E. Auerbach; G. Iacca; D. Floreano 

2016. GECCO ’16, Denver, Colorado, USA, 20-24 07 2016. p. 821-828. DOI : 10.1145/2908812.2908886.

2015

Extension of a Ground Control Interface for Swarms of Small Drones

N. Dousse; G. H. M. Heitz; D. Floreano 

2015. SWARM 2015: The First International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics, Kyoto, Japon, October 28-30, 2015.

Variable Stiffness Actuator for Soft Robotics Using Dielectric Elastomer and Low-Melting-Point Alloy

J. Shintake; B. E. Schubert; S. Rosset; H. Shea; D. Floreano 

2015. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, September 28 – October 02, 2015. p. 1097-1102. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353507.

Rapid Evolution of Robot Gaits

J. E. Auerbach; G. H. M. Heitz; P. M. Kornatowski; D. Floreano 

2015. GECCO ’15, Madrid, Spain, July 11-15, 2015. p. 743-744. DOI : 10.1145/2739482.2764894.

Distributed Formation Control of Fixed Wing Micro Aerial Vehicles for Uniform Area Coverage

M. Varga; M. Basiri; G. H. M. Heitz; D. Floreano 

2015. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, p. 669-674. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353444.

Foldable and Self-Deployable Pocket Sized Quadrotor

S. Mintchev; L. Daler; G. L’Eplattenier; L. Saint-Raymond; D. Floreano 

2015. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015), Seattle, Washington, USA, May 26-30, 2015. p. 2190-2195. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139488.

DEA for soft robotics: 1-gram actuator picks up a 60-gram egg

J. Shintake; S. Rosset; B. E. Schubert; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano et al. 

2015. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, March 2015. p. 94301S. DOI : 10.1117/12.2084043.

2014

Curved artificial compound-eyes for autonomous navigation

R. Leitel; A. Brückner; W. Buss; S. Viollet; R. Pericet Camara et al. 

2014. Micro-Optics, Brussels, Belgium, APR 14-16, 2014. DOI : 10.1117/12.2052710.

RoboGen: Robot Generation through Artificial Evolution

J. Auerbach; D. Aydin; A. Maesani; P. Kornatowski; T. Cieslewski et al. 

2014. Artificial Life 14: International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, New York, NY, USA, July 30-August 2, 2014. p. 136-137. DOI : 10.7551/978-0-262-32621-6-ch022.

Online Extreme Evolutionary Learning Machines

J. E. Auerbach; C. Fernando; D. Floreano 

2014. Artificial Life 14: International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, New York, NY, USA, July 30-August 2, 2014. p. 465-472. DOI : 10.7551/978-0-262-32621-6-ch076.

Miniature artificial compound eyes for optic-flow-based robotic navigation

R. Pericet Camara; G. Bahi Vila; J. Lecoeur; D. Floreano 

2014. Workshop on Information Optics WIO2014, Neuchatel, Switzerland, July 7-11, 2014. p. 1-3. DOI : 10.1109/WIO.2014.6933290.

Viability Principles for Constrained Optimization Using a (1+1)-CMA-ES

A. Maesani; D. Floreano 

2014. 13th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 13-17, 2014. p. 272-281. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-10762-2_27.

Stretchable Electroadhesion for Soft Robots

J. M. Germann; B. E. Schubert; D. Floreano 

2014. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, Illinois, USA, September 14-18, 2014. p. 3933-3938. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2014.6943115.

Programmable Self-assembly with Chained Soft Cells: An Algorithm to Fold into 2-D Shapes

J. Germann; J. Auerbach; D. Floreano 

2014. Simulation of Adaptive Behavior 2014, Castellón, Spain, July 22-26, 2014. p. 220-229. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-08864-8_21.

Audio-based Localization for Swarms of Micro Air Vehicles

M. Basiri; F. S. Schill; D. Floreano; P. Lima 

2014. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014), Hong Kong, China, May 31 – June 7, 2014. p. 4729-4734. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907551.

2013

Soft Cell Simulator: A tool to study Soft Multi-Cellular Robots

J. M. Germann; A. Maesani; M. Stöckli; D. Floreano 

2013. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Shenzhen, China, December 12-14, 2013. p. 1300-1305. DOI : 10.1109/ROBIO.2013.6739644.

Audio-based Relative Positioning System for Multiple Micro Air Vehicle Systems

M. Basiri; F. Schill; D. Floreano; P. Lima 

2013. Robotics: Science and Systems RSS2013, Berlin, Germany, June 24-28, 2013.

Optic-Flow Based Control of a 46g Quadrotor

A. Briod; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2013. Workshop on Vision-based Closed-Loop Control and Navigation of Micro Helicopters in GPS-denied Environments, IROS 2013, Tokyo, Japan, November 7, 2013.

Euler Spring Collision Protection for Flying Robots

A. Klaptocz; A. Briod; L. Daler; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2013. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, November 3-7, 2013. p. 1886-1892. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696606.

A Flying Robot with Adaptive Morphology for Multi-Modal Locomotion

L. Daler; J. Lecoeur; P. B. Hählen; D. Floreano 

2013. IROS 13, Tokyo, Japan, November 3-6, 2013. p. 1361-1366. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696526.

Contact-based navigation for an autonomous flying robot

A. Briod; P. M. Kornatowski; A. Klaptocz; A. Garnier; M. Pagnamenta et al. 

2013. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, November 3-7, 2013. p. 3987-3992. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696926.

Testbed for Fast-Deployable Flying WiFi Networks

S. Rosati; B. Rimoldi; K. Kruzelecki; A. jimenez-Pacheco; D. Floreano et al. 

2013. FOURTH NORDIC WORKSHOP ON SYSTEM AND NETWORK OPTIMIZATION FOR WIRELESS, Kittila, Finland, 2013.

Effect of mechanical parameters on dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures

J. Shintake; S. Rosset; D. Floreano; H. Shea 

2013. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, USA, March 10, 2013. p. 86872V. DOI : 10.1117/12.2009368.

Beat-Based Synchronization and Steering for Groups of Fixed-Wing Flying Robots

S. Hauert; S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2013. 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems. p. 281-293. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_21.

Energy-Time Efficiency in Aerial Swarm Deployment

T. Stirling; D. Floreano 

2013. 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 1-3, 2010. p. 5-18. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_1.

Representation of Vehicle Dynamics in Haptic Teleoperation of Aerial Robots

X. Hou; R. Mahony; F. S. Schill 

2013. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, May 6-10, 2013. p. 1485-1491. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630767.

Hyper-flexible 1-D shape sensor

M. Dobrzynski; H. Vanderparre; R. Pericet Camara; G. L’Eplattenier; S. Lacour et al. 

2013. The 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Barcelona, Spain, June 16-20, 2013. p. 1899-1902. DOI : 10.1109/Transducers.2013.6627163.

A Perching Mechanism for Flying Robots Using a Fibre-Based Adhesive

L. Daler; A. Klaptocz; A. Briod; M. Sitti; D. Floreano 

2013. ICRA 13, Karlsruhe, May 6-7, 2013. p. 4433-4438. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631206.

Beat-based synchronization and steering for groups of fixed-wing flying robots

S. Hauert; S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2013. International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 1-3, 2010. p. 281–293. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_21.

2012

Linear Programming Based Routing Design for a Positive Compartmental System with Nonlinear Flow Rates and Piecewise Constant Capacity Constraints

N. Dousse; H. Arneson; C. Langbort 

2012. American Control Conference (ACC), Montreal, Canada, p. 4004-4009. DOI : 10.1109/ACC.2012.6315610.

A scalable electro-magnetic communication system for underwater swarms

F. S. Schill; U. R. Zimmer 

2012. 9th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft (MCMC), Arenzano (GE), Italy, September 19-21, 2012. p. 97-102. DOI : 10.3182/20120919-3-IT-2046.00017.

Limitations of response thresholds models of division of labor

P. Lichocki; D. Tarapore; L. Keller; D. Floreano 

2012. Artificial Life 13, the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, East Lansing, Michigan, USA, July 19-22, 2012. p. 561-562.

Differences in the Concept of Fitness Between Artificial Evolution and Natural Selection

P. Lichocki; L. Keller; D. Floreano 

2012. Artificial Life 13, the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, East Lansing, Michigan, USA, July 19-22, 2012. p. 530-531.

Robust Acoustic Source Localization of Emergency Signals from Micro Air Vehicles

M. Basiri; F. S. Schill; P. Lima U.; D. Floreano 

2012. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, October 7-12, 2012.. p. 4737-4742. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385608.

Implementation of a Wireless Mesh Network of Ultra Light MAVs with Dynamic Routing

A. Jimenez Pacheco; D. Bouhired; Y. Gasser; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano et al. 

2012. IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, 3rd International IEEE Workshop on Wireless Networking & Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles 2012, Anaheim, California, USA, December 3-7, 2012. p. 1591-1596. DOI : 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2012.6477823.

Indoor Navigation with a Swarm of Flying Robots

T. Stirling; J. Roberts; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2012. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2012), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 14-18, 2012. p. 4641-4647. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224987.

Contactless deflection sensing of concave and convex shapes assisted by soft mirrors

M. Dobrzynski; I. Halasz; R. Pericet Camara; D. Floreano 

2012. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, October 7-12, 2012. p. 4810-4815. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385505.

The AirBurr: A Flying Robot That Can Exploit Collisions

A. Briod; A. Klaptocz; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2012. International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering (CME), 2012 ICME, Kobe, Japan, July 1-4, 2012. p. 569-574. DOI : 10.1109/ICCME.2012.6275674.

Automatically calibrating the viewing direction of optic-flow sensors

A. Briod; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2012. Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, St-Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 14-18, 2012. p. 3956-3961. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225011.

2011

myCopter – Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Transportation Systems

F. M. Nieuwenhuizen; M. Jump; M. White; P. Perfect; P. Padfield et al. 

2011. International HELI World Conference, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 2011.

myCopter – Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Transportation Systems.

M. Jump; P. Perfect; G. D. Padfield; M. D. White; D. Floreano et al. 

2011. European Rotorcraft Forum, Vergiate/Gallarate, Italy, September 13-15, 2011.

Robot Companions for Citizens

P. Dario; P. Verschure; T. Prescott; G. Sandini; R. Cingolani et al. 

2011. FET’11, Budapest, p. 47-51. DOI : 10.1016/j.procs.2011.12.017.

CURVACE – CURVed Artificial Compound Eyes

R. Pericet Camara; M. Dobrzynski; G. L’Eplattenier; J-C. Zufferey; F. Expert et al. 

2011. 2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011 (FET 11), Budapest, Hungary, May 4-6, 2011. p. 308-309. DOI : 10.1016/j.procs.2011.09.040.

The EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot with rigid or folding wings

M. Kovac; W. Hraiz; O. Fauria Torrent; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2011. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Phuket, Thailand, December 7-11, 2011. p. 1503-1508. DOI : 10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181502.

Reynolds flocking in reality with fixed-wing robots: communication range vs. maximum turning rate

S. Hauert; S. Leven; M. Varga; F. Ruini; A. Cangelosi et al. 

2011. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2011), San Francisco, September 25-30, 2011. p. 5015-5020. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2011.6095129.

Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments

D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey; A. Klaptocz; J. M. Germann; M. Kovac 

2011. 15th International Symposium on Robotics Research, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, August 28-September 1, 2011.

The Accuracy of Automatic Photogrammetric Techniques on Ultra-light UAV Imagery

O. Küng; C. Strecha; A. Beyeler; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano et al. 

2011. UAV-g 2011 – Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Geomatics, Zürich, CH, September 14-16, 2011.

Contactless deflection sensor for soft robots

M. Dobrzynski; R. Pericet Camara; D. Floreano 

2011. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, USA, September 25-30, 2011. p. 1913-1918. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048425.

myCopter: Enabling Technologies for Personal Air Transport Systems

M. Jump; P. Padfield; M. White; D. Floreano; P. Fua et al. 

2011. RAeS Rotorcraft Conference: The Future Rotorcraft – Enabling Capability Through the Application of Technology, London, UK, 15-16th June 2011.

De l’évolution artificielle à l’homme-machine : la science en proie à la fiction

D. Kunz Westerhoff; M. Atallah; M. Atallah; J-C. Zufferey 

2011. L’homme-machine et ses avatars, entre science, philosophie et littérature, Lausanne, Switzerland, May 22-23, 2008.

SleepPic. Hardware Developments for a Wearable On-line Sleep and Wake Discrimination System

W. Karlen; D. Floreano 

2011. BIOSIGNALS 2011 – International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Rome, Italy, January 26-29, 2011. p. 132-137.

2010

Energy Efficient Swarm Deployment for Search in Unknown Environments

T. Stirling; D. Floreano 

2010. 7th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Brussels, Belgium, September 8-10th 2010. p. 562-563. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_61.

Enhancing Pilot Performance with a SymBodic System

W. Karlen; S. Cardin; D. Thalmann; D. Floreano 

2010. 32nd Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31 – September 4, 2010. p. 6599-602. DOI : 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627127.

Communication-based Swarming for Flying Robots

S. Hauert; S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2010. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Workshop on Network Science and Systems Issues in Multi-Robot Autonomy, Anchorage, Alaska, May 7, 2010.

Communication-based Leashing of Real Flying Robots

S. Hauert; S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2010. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2010). p. 15-20. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509421.

Autonomous flight at low altitude with vision-based collision avoidance and GPS-based path following

J-C. Zufferey; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

2010. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, Alaska, May 3-8, 2010. p. 3329-3334. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509273.

An Indoor Flying Platform with Collision Robustness and Self-Recovery

A. Klaptocz; G. Boutinard Rouelle; A. Briod; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2010. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), Anchorage, Alaska, US, May 3-8, 2010. p. 3349-3354. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509338.

2009

Evolving Teams of Cooperating Agents for Real-Time Strategy Game

P. Lichocki; K. Krawiec; W. Jaskowski 

2009. 1st European Workshop on Bio-inspired Algorithms in Games (EvoGAMES-2009), Tübingen, Germany, April 15-17, 2009. p. 333-342. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-01129-0_37.

Approximating geometric crossover in semantic space

K. Krawiec; P. Lichocki 

2009. 11th Annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation (GECCO-2009), Montreal, Québec, Canada, July 8-12, 2009. p. 987-994. DOI : 10.1145/1569901.1570036.

How to control MAVs in cluttered environments?

J-C. Zufferey; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

2009. Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicles at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2009), St-Louis, October 11-15.

optiPilot: control of take-off and landing using optic flow

A. Beyeler; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2009. European Micro Air Vehicle conference and competition 2009 (EMAV ’09), Delft, Netherland, September 14-17, 2009.

2.5D Infrared Range and Bearing System for Collective Robotics

J. F. Roberts; T. S. Stirling; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2009), St. Louis, October 10-15, 2009. p. 3659-3664. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354263.

A Minimalist Control Strategy for Small UAVs

S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2009. 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, October 11-15, 2009. p. 2873-2878. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354465.

A Miniature Jumping Robot with Self-Recovery Capabilities

M. Kovac; M. Schlegel; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, October 11-15, 2009. p. 583-588. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354005.

Novelty of Behaviour as a Basis for the Neuro-evolution of Operant Reward Learning

A. Soltoggio; B. Jones 

2009. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Montréal Québec,Canada, July 8-12, 2009. p. 169–176. DOI : 10.1145/1569901.1569925.

The e-puck, a Robot Designed for Education in Engineering

F. Mondada; M. Bonani; X. Raemy; J. Pugh; C. Cianci et al. 

2009. 9th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Castelo Branco, Portugal, May 7, 2009. p. 59-65.

Methods for Artificial Evolution of Truly Cooperative Robots

L. Keller; D. Floreano 

2009. International Workshop on Artificial Neural Network 2009, Salamanca, Spain, June 10-12, 2009. p. 768-772. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-02478-8_96.

Reverse-engineering of Artificially Evolved Controllers for Swarms of Robots

S. Hauert; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2009. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Trondheim, Norway, May 18-21, 2009. p. 55-61. DOI : 10.1109/CEC.2009.4982930.

2008

An automatic parameter extraction method for the 7x50m Stroke Efficiency Test

M. Baechlin; K. Foerster; J. Schumm; D. Breu; J. Germann et al. 

2008. Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications, 2008. ICPCA 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, October 6-8, 2008. DOI : 10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783628.

A time-of-travel motion detection chip for steering autonomous robots

R. Moeckel; S-C. Liu 

2008. Workshop on visual guidance systems for small autonomous aerial vehicles at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2008), Nice, 22 September 2008.

Near-obstacle flight with small UAVs

J-C. Zufferey; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

2008. UAV’2008, Orlando, June 23-25, 2008.

Optic flow to control small UAVs

J-C. Zufferey; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

2008. Workshop on visual guidance systems for small autonomous aerial vehicles at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2008), Nice, 22 September 2008.

Ishtar: a flexible and lightweight software for remote data access

A. Beyeler; S. Magnenat; A. Habersaat 

2008. European Micro Air Vehicle Conference EMAV08, Braunschweig, Germany, July 8-10, 2008.

Towards the Self Deploying Microglider, a biomimetic jumping and gliding robot

M. Kovac; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2008. 4th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, June 1-6, 2008. p. 41-42.

Evolvability of Neuromodulated Learning for Robots

P. Dürr; C. Mattiussi; A. Soltoggio; D. Floreano 

2008. The 2008 ECSIS Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behavior in Robotic Systems, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 6-8, 2008. p. 41-46. DOI : 10.1109/LAB-RS.2008.22.

Energy Management for Indoor Hovering Robots

J. F. Roberts; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2008. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2008), Nice, France, September 22-26, 2008. p. 1242-1247. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2008.4650856.

Evolutionary Advantages of Neuromodulated Plasticity in Dynamic, Reward- based Scenarios

A. Soltoggio; J. A. Bullinaria; C. Mattiussi; P. Dürr; D. Floreano 

2008. Artificial Life XI, Winchester UK, 5-8 August 2008. p. 569–576.

Improving Actigraph Sleep/Wake Classification with Cardio-Respiratory Signals

W. Karlen; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, BC, 20.-25.8.2008. p. 5262-5265. DOI : 10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4650401.

A miniature 7g jumping robot

M. Kovac; M. Fuchs; A. Guignard; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2008. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’2008), Pasadena, California, May 19-23, 2008. p. 373-378. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543236.

2007

Towards the Self Deploying Microglider; Gliding Flight and Bioinspired Wing Folding Mechanism

M. Kovac; G. Savioz; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano; M. Srinivasan et al. 

2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, August 12-17, 2007. p. 61-62.

A Simple and Robust Fixed-Wing Platform for Outdoor Flying Robot Experiments

S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, August 12-17, 2007. p. 69-70.

Evolutionary Swarms of Flying Robots

D. Floreano; S. Hauert; S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey 

2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Switzerland, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, August 12-17.

Quadrotor Using Minimal Sensing For Autonomous Indoor Flight

J. F. Roberts; T. Stirling; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2007. European Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition (EMAV2007), Toulouse, France, 17-21 September 2007.

Insect-inspired Autonomous Microflyer

J-C. Zufferey; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Switzerland, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, August 12-17. p. 133-134.

Adaptive Sleep/Wake Classification Based on Cardiorespiratory Signals for Wearable Devices

W. Karlen; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

2007. Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2007, Montreal, 27.-30.11.2007. p. 203-206. DOI : 10.1109/BIOCAS.2007.4463344.

Evolving Neuromodulatory Topologies for Reinforcement Learning-like Problems

A. Soltoggio; P. Dürr; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

2007. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007) 25-28 Sept. 2007, Singapore, September 25-28, 2007. p. 2471-2478. DOI : 10.1109/CEC.2007.4424781.

Center of Mass Encoding: A self-adaptive representation with adjustable redundancy for real-valued parameters

C. Mattiussi; P. Dürr; D. Floreano 

2007. GECCO 2007, University College, London, 2007. p. 1304–1311. DOI : 10.1145/1276958.1277205.

Motion Detection Circuits for a Time-To-Travel Algorithm

R. Moeckel; S-C. Liu 

2007. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), New Orleans, 27-30 May. p. 3079-3082. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2007.378059.

Bio-mimetic Evolutionary Reverse Engineering of Genetic Regulatory Networks

D. Marbach; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

2007. 5th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics (EvoBIO 2007), València, 11.4.-13.4.07. p. 155-165. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-71783-6_15.

3D Vision-based Navigation for Indoor Microflyers

A. Beyeler; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2007. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’07), Roma, Italy, April 10th-14th, 2007. p. 1336-1341. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363170.

A 1.5g SMA-actuated Microglider looking for the Light

M. Kovac; A. Guignard; J-D. Nicoud; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2007. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’2007), Rome, Italy, 10-14.4.2007. p. 367-372. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363814.

2006

Co-evolution of Language and Behaviour in Autonomous Robots

S. Mitri; P. Vogt 

2006. The sixth international conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang6), World Scientific, Rome, Italy, April, 2006. p. 428-429. DOI : 10.1142/9789812774262_0068.

Neuroevolution with Analog Genetic Encoding

P. Dürr; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

2006. 9th Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN iX), Reykjavik, Iceland, 9-13 September 2006. p. 671–680. DOI : 10.1007/11844297_68.

A 10-gram Microflyer for Vision-based Indoor Navigation

J-C. Zufferey; A. Klaptocz; A. Beyeler; J-D. Nicoud; D. Floreano 

2006. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2006), Beijing, China, October 9-15. p. 3267-3272. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2006.282436.

Active Vision for Neural Development and Landmark Navigation

M. Suzuki; D. Floreano 

2006. 50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence, Monte Verità, Switzerland, 9-14 July 2006. p. 247-248.

Influence of the level of polyandry and genetic architecture on division of labour

D. Tarapore; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

2006. The Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, June 3-7, 2006. p. 358-364.

Active Vision and Neural Development in Animals and Robots

D. Floreano; M. Suzuki 

2006. The Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Trieste, Italy, 5-8 April 2006. p. 10–11.

Evolutionary Active Vision Toward Three Dimensional Landmark-Navigation

M. Suzuki; D. Floreano 

2006. From Animals to Animats 9: The Ninth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Roma, Italy, 25-29 September 2006. p. 263–273. DOI : 10.1007/11840541_22.

Vision-based Altitude and Pitch Estimation for Ultra-light Indoor Microflyers

A. Beyeler; C. Mattiussi; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2006. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’06), Orlando, FL, May, 2006. p. 2836-2841. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642131.

Omnidirectional Active Vision for Evolutionary Car Driving

M. Suzuki; J. van der Blij; D. Floreano 

2006. The Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Tokyo, Japan, 7-9 March 2006. p. 153–161.

2005

Superlinear Physical Performances in a SWARM-BOT

F. Mondada; M. Bonani; A. Guignard; S. Magnenat; C. Studer et al. 

2005. 8th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’2005), Canterbury, Kent (UK), 5-9 September. p. 282-291. DOI : 10.1007/11553090_29.

Robust Object Detection at Regions of Interest with an Application in Ball Recognition

S. Mitri; S. Frintrop; K. Pervölz; H. Surmann; A. Nüchter 

2005. IEEE 2005 International Conference Robotics and Automation (ICRA ’05), Barcelona, Spain, April 2005. p. 126-131. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570107.

Information-theoretic approach to embodied category learning

G. Gomez; M. Lungarella; D. Tarapore 

2005. The Tenth International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita,Japan, Feb 4 – Feb 6, 2005. p. 332-337.

Co-evolution of Structures and Controllers for Neubot Underwater Modular Robots

B. von Haller; A. Ijspeert; D. Floreano 

2005. 8th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’2005), Canterbury, Kent (UK), 5-9 September. p. 189-199. DOI : 10.1007/11553090_20.

Toward 30-gram Autonomous Indoor Aircraft: Vision-based Obstacle Avoidance and Altitude Control

J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2005. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’2005), Barcelona, 18-22 April. p. 2594-2599. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570504.

Constraints on Body Movement during Visual Development Affect Behavior of Evolutionary Robots

M. Suzuki; D. Floreano; E. A. Di Paolo 

2005. The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Montreal, Canada, 31 July-4 August 2005. p. 2778–2783. DOI : 10.1109/IJCNN.2005.1556365.

2004

Co-Evolutionary Particle Swarm Optimization Applied to the 7×7 Seega Game

A. M. Abdelbar; S. Ragab; S. Mitri 

2004. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Budapest, Hungary, July, 2004. p. 243-248. DOI : 10.1109/IJCNN.2004.1379907.

Fast Color-Independent Ball Detection for Mobile Robots

S. Mitri; K. Pervölz; H. Surmann; A. Nüchter 

2004. IEEE International Conference Mechatronics and Robotics 2004 (MechRob ’04), Aachen, Germany, September 2004. p. 900-905.

Fingerprinting Agent-Environment Interaction via Information Theory

D. Tarapore; M. Lungarella; G. Gomez 

2004. The Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Amsterdam, March 10 to 12, 2004. p. 512-520.

Physical connections and cooperation in swarm robotics

F. Mondada; M. Bonani; S. Magnenat; A. Guignard; D. Floreano et al. 

2004. 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS8), Amsterdam, NL, March 10-14. p. 53-60.

Evolution of Analog Networks using Local String Alignment on Highly Reorganizable Genomes

C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

2004. NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH’2004), Seattle, 24-26 June. p. 30-37.

Connecting Transistors and Proteins

C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

2004. 9th International Conference on Artificial Life (Alife9), Boston (MA), p. 9-14.

An Evolving and Developing Cellular Electronic Circuit

D. Roggen; Y. Thoma; E. Sanchez 

2004. 9th International Conference on Artificial Life (Alife9), Boston (MA), p. 33-38.

Prototyping with a bio-inspired reconfigurable chip

Y. Thoma; D. Roggen; E. Sanchez; J. Moreno 

2004. 15th IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP’2004). p. 239-246. DOI : 10.1109/IWRSP.2004.1311123.

Multi-cellular development: is there scalability and robustness to gain?

D. Roggen; D. Federici 

2004. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature 8 (PPSN’2004), Birmingham (UK), Birmingham, UK. p. 391-400.

Evolving Genetic Regulatory Networks for Hardware Fault Tolerance

A. Koopman; D. Roggen 

2004. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature 8 (PPSN’04), Birmingham (UK), 18-22 September. p. 561-570.

The SWARM-BOTS project

M. Dorigo; E. Tuci; R. Groß; V. Trianni; T. H. Labella et al. 

2004. Swarm Robotics (SAB’2004), Santa Monica, CA, USA, July 17. p. 31-44. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-30552-1_4.

2003

Applying Co-Evolutionary Particle Swam Optimization to the Egyptian Board Game Seega

A. M. Abdelbar; S. Ragab; S. Mitri 

2003. The First Asian-Pacific Workshop on Genetic Programming, Canberra, Australia, December, 2003. p. 9-15.

Evolving Spiking Neurons from Wheels to Wings

D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey; C. Mattiussi 

2003. 3rd International Symposium on Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems (HART’2002), Fukui, Japan, December 6-7, 2002. p. 65-70.

A Morphogenetic Evolutionary System: Phylogenesis of the POEtic Circuit

D. Roggen; D. Floreano; C. Mattiussi 

2003. 5th International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES’2003), Trondheim, Norway, 17-20 March. p. 153-164. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-36553-2_14.

Evolving Reinforcement Learning-Like Abilities for Robots

J. Blynel 

2003. 5th International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES’03), Trondheim, Norway, 17-20 March. p. 320-331. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-36553-2_29.

Exploring the T-Maze: Evolving Learning-Like Robot Behaviors using CTRNNs

J. Blynel; D. Floreano 

2003. 2nd European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics (EvoRob’2003), Essex, UK, 14-16 April. p. 593-604. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-36605-9_54.

POEtic Tissue: An Integrated Architecture for Bio-inspired Hardware

A. Tyrrell; E. Sanchez; D. Floreano; G. Tempesti; D. Mange et al. 

2003. 5th International Conference, ICES 2003, Trondheim, Norway, March 17–20, 2003. p. 129-140. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-36553-2_12.

Hardware spiking neural network with run-time reconfigurable connectivity in an autonomous robot

D. Roggen; S. Hofmann; Y. Thoma; D. Floreano 

2003. NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH’2003), Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 9-11. p. 189-198. DOI : 10.1109/EH.2003.1217666.

Effects of group composition and level of selection in the evolution of cooperation in artificial ants

A. Perez-Uribe; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

2003. 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’2003). p. 128-137. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-39432-7_14.

Ontogenetic Development and Fault Tolerance in the POEtic Tissue

G. Tempesti; D. Roggen; E. Sanchez; Y. Thoma; R. Canham et al. 

2003. 5th International Conference, ICES 2003, Trondheim, Norway, March 17–20, 2003. p. 141-152. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-36553-2_13.

Vision-based Navigation from Wheels to Wings

J-C. Zufferey; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

2003. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2003). p. 2968-2973. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2003.1249322.

SWARM-BOT: From Concept to Implementation

F. Mondada; A. Guignard; M. Bonani; D. Bär; M. Lauria et al. 

2003. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2003). p. 1626-1631. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2003.1248877.

Complex Visual Behavior with Simple Brains: Co-evolutionary Active Vision and Feature Selection

D. Floreano 

2003. European Cognitive Science Conference, Osnabrück, Germany, 10-13 September. DOI : 10.4324/9781315782362-9.

Robust Modeling of Dynamic Environment Based on Robot Embodiment

K. Noda; M. Suzuki; N. Tsuchiya; Y. Suga; T. Ogata et al. 

2003. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’2003), Taipei, Taiwan, 14-19 September 2003. p. 3565-3570. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2003.1242142.

2002

Evolving Vision-based Flying Robots

J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano; M. van Leeuwen; T. Merenda 

2002. 2nd International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (BMCV’2002), Tübingen, November 22 – 24, 2002. p. 592-600. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-36181-2_59.

Toward Indoor Flying Robots

J-D. Nicoud; J-C. Zufferey 

2002. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2002), Lausanne, Switzerland, September 30 – October 4. p. 787-792. DOI : 10.1109/IRDS.2002.1041486.

Levels of Dynamics and Adaptive Behavior in Evolutionary Neural Controllers

J. Blynel; D. Floreano 

2002. 7th International Conference on Simulation on Adaptive Behavior (SAB’2002), Edinburgh, UK, 4 – 9 – 11 August.

Active Vision and Feature Selection in Evolutionary Behavioral Systems

D. Marocco; D. Floreano 

2002. The Seventh International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Edinburgh, UK, 5 – 9 August. p. 247–255.

Evolutionary Bits’n’Spikes

D. Floreano; N. Schoeni; G. Caprari; J. Blynel 

2002. 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife 8), Sydney, NSW, Australia, 9-13 December.

SOS++: Finding Smart Behaviors Using Learning and Evolution

B. Mesot; E. Sanchez; C. Pena; A. Perez-Uribe 

2002. 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife 8), Sydney, NSW, Australia, 9-13 December. p. 264-273.

A POEtic Architecture for Bio-Inspired Hardware

G. Tempesti; D. Roggen; E. Sanchez; Y. Thoma 

2002. 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife 8), Sydney, NSW, Australia, 9-13 December. p. 111-115.

SWARM Robotics: A Different Approach to Service Robotics

G. C. Pettinaro; I. Kwee; L. Gambardella; F. Mondada; D. Floreano et al. 

2002. 33rd International Symposium on Robotics (ISR’2002), Stockholm, Sweden, October 7-11. p. 71-76.

SWARM-BOT: A Swarm of Autonomous Mobile Robots with Self-Assembling Capabilities

F. Mondada; G. C. Pettinaro; I. Kwee; A. Guignard; D. Floreano et al. 

2002. Workshop on Self-Organisation and Evolution of Social Behaviour, Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, September 8-13. p. 11-22.

SWARM-BOT: Pattern Formation in a Swarm of Self-Assembling Mobile Robots

E. Sahin; T. Labella; V. Trianni; J-L. Deneubourg; P. Rasse et al. 

2002. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 6-9. p. 145-150. DOI : 10.1109/ICSMC.2002.1173259.

2001

An Evolutionary Active-Vision System

T. Kato; D. Floreano 

2001. The 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Seoul, South Korea, 05/27/2001 – 05/30/2001. p. 107–114.

2000

Evolutionary Robotics: Coping with Environmental Change

J. Urzelai; D. Floreano 

2000. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 8 – 12.

Evolutionary Robots with Fast Adaptive Behavior in New Environments

J. Urzelai; D. Floreano 

2000. 3rd International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES’2000). p. 241–251. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-46406-9_24.

Artificial Evolution of Robust Adaptive Software: An Application to Autonomous Robots

D. Floreano; J. Urzelai 

2000. 3rd International Conference on Human and Computer (HC’2000), Aizu, Japan,

Evolutionary On-Line Self-Organization of Autonomous Robots

D. Floreano; J. Urzelai 

2000. 5th International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB’2000), Oita University, Japan,

1999

Evolution of Adaptive-Synapse Controllers

D. Floreano; J. Urzelai 

1999. 5th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’1999), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 13-17 September.

Incremental Evolution with Minimal Resources

J. Urzelai; D. Floreano 

1999. First International Khepera Workshop (IKW’1999).

1998

Edge Elements and Cochain-Based Field Function Approximation

C. Mattiussi 

1998. 4th International Workshop on Electric and Magnetic Fields, EMF 1998 (Marseille, France, May 12-15, 1988), Marseille, France, May 12-15, 1988. p. 301-306.

Incremental Robot Shaping

J. Urzelai; D. Floreano; M. Dorigo; M. Colombetti 

1998. 3rd International Conference on Genetic Programming.

Competitive Co-Evolutionary Robotics: From Theory to Practice

D. Floreano; S. Nolfi; F. Mondada 

1998. 5th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’1998), Zurich, Switzerland, August 17-21. p. 515-524.

Hardware Solutions for Evolutionary Robotics

D. Floreano; F. Mondada 

1998. First European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics (EVOROBOT’1998), Berlin, p. 137-151. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-64957-3_69.

How co-evolution can enhance the adaptation power of artificial evolution: Implications for evolutionary robotics

S. Nolfi; D. Floreano 

1998. First European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics (EVOROBOT’1998).

1997

Adaptive Behavior in Competitive Co-Evolutionary Robotics

D. Floreano; S. Nolfi 

1997. 4th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’1997).

God Save the Red Queen! Competition in Co-Evolutionary Robotics

D. Floreano; S. Nolfi 

1997. 2nd Conference on Genetic Programming.

1996

Evolution of Plastic Neurocontrollers for Situated Agents

D. Floreano; F. Mondada 

1996. 4th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’1996), Cape Cod, Massachusetts, September 9-13. p. 402-410.

Evolutionary Re-Adaptation of Neurocontrollers in Changing Environments

D. Floreano 

1996. Intelligent Technologies.

Extraction of Coherent Information from Non-Overlapping Receptive Fields

D. Floreano 

1996. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN’1996), Bochum, Germany, July 16-19, 1996. p. 389-394. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-61510-5_68.

Evolving fast-learning neural controllers for a mobile robot

D. Floreano; F. Mondada 

1996. 24th Conference of Neurobiology, Goettingen,

1994

Active Perception, Navigation, Homing, and Grasping: An autonomous Perspective

D. Floreano; F. Mondada 

1994. From Perception to Action Conference (PERAC’1994).

How to Evolve Autonomous Robots: Different Approaches in Evolutionary Robotics

S. Nolfi; D. Floreano; O. Miglino; F. Mondada 

1994. 4th International Workshop on Artificial Life, Cambridge, p. 190-197.

Automatic Creation of an Autonomous Agent: Genetic Evolution of a Neural Network Driven Robot

D. Floreano; F. Mondada 

1994. 3rd International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’1994), Brighton, England, August 8-12. p. 421-430.

1993

Anticipatory Tracking of a Moving Object

D. Floreano 

1993. Artificial and Natural Visual Systems. p. 344-353. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-57379-8_21.

Patterns of Interactions in Shared Environments

D. Floreano 

1993. 2nd European Conference of Artificial Life (ECAL’1993).

Emergence of Nest-Based Foraging Strategies in Ecosystems of Neural Networks

D. Floreano 

1993. Second International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’1992).

1992

Prediction and Imitation of Linguistic Sounds by Neural Networks

D. Parisi; D. Floreano 

1992. First Workshop on Neural Networks and Speech Processing.

1991

Emergent complex behaviours in ecosystems of neural networks

D. Floreano; O. Miglino; D. Parisi 

1991. Parallel Architectures and Neural Networks.

Reviews

2014

Robotics and Neuroscience

D. Floreano; A. Ijspeert; S. Schaal 

Current Biology. 2014. Vol. 24, p. R910-R920. DOI : 10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.058.

2013

Using robots to understand social behavior

S. Mitri; S. Wischmann; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

Biological Reviews. 2013. num. 88, p. 31-39. DOI : 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00236.x.

2010

Evolving olfactory systems on the fly

P. Ramdya; R. Benton 

Trends In Genetics. 2010. Vol. 26, p. 307-316. DOI : 10.1016/j.tig.2010.04.004.

2006

Trends in Dynamic and Embodied Cognition

M. Suzuki; D. Floreano 

International Neural Network Society Newsletter. 2006. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 9–10.

2004

Review of “Ant Colony Optimization” by Marco Dorigo and Thomas Stützle

M. Waibel 

Myrmecologische Nachrichten. 2004. Vol. 6, p. 18.

2002

Review of: “Digital Biology: The Creation of Life Inside Computers and How It Will Affect Us” by Peter J. Bentley

C. Mattiussi 

Artificial Life. 2002. Vol. 8, p. 379-382. DOI : 10.1162/106454602321202444.

1997

An Internal Teacher for Neural Computation

D. Floreano 

Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1997. Vol. 20, num. 4, p. 687-688. DOI : 10.1017/S0140525X97261601.

Engineering Adaptive Behavior

D. Floreano 

Adaptive Behavior. 1997. Vol. 5, num. 3-4, p. 407-416. DOI : 10.1177/105971239700500309.

Theses

2023

Resilient drones with morphing wings

C. Vourtsis / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

Wing and tail morphing in birds and drones

E. Ajanic / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

2022

Vision-based Flocking in Aerial Robot Swarms

F. M. Schilling / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. 

Model Predictive Control of Aerial Swarms

E. Soria / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. 

2021

Wearable Haptic Interfaces for Telerobotics

V. Ramachandran / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

Personalized Body-Machine Interfaces for Advanced Human-Robot Interaction

M. Macchini / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

Variable-Stiffness Tensegrity Modular Robots

D. Zappetti / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

2020

Human-friendly solutions for last-centimeter drone delivery

P. M. Kornatowski / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

2019

Wearable Technologies for Embodied Human-Robot Interaction

C. Rognon / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. 

Insect-Inspired Visual Perception for Flight Control and Collision Avoidance

J. J. D. N. Lecoeur / D. Floreano; E. Baird (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. 

2017

Aerial Human-Comfortable Collision-free Navigation in Dense Environments

N. Dousse / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. 

2016

Fixed-wing drones for communication networks

M. Varga / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. 

Functional Soft Robotic Actuators Based on Dielectric Elastomers

J. Shintake / D. Floreano; H. Shea (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. 

2015

Adaptive Morphology for Multi-Modal Locomotion

L. Daler / D. Floreano; A. Ijspeert (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. 

Audio-based Positioning and Target Localization for Swarms of Micro Aerial Vehicles

M. Basiri / D. Floreano; P. M. U. De Almeida Lima (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. 

Viability evolutionary algorithms and applications to neuroscience and biology

A. Maesani / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. 

2014

Soft Cells for Modular Robots

J. M. Germann / D. Floreano; R. Pfeifer (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. 

From Genes to Organisms

T. Schaffter / D. Floreano; M. Affolter (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. 

Robust Autonomous Flight in Unstructured Environments

A. Briod / D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. 

2013

VisionHat Development of a wearable collision alert system supported by flexible optic flow sensors

M. K. Dobrzynski / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. 

Evolution of division of labor in artificial societies

P. Lichocki / D. Floreano; L. Keller (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. 

2012

Design of Flying Robots for Collision Absorption and Self-Recovery

A. Klaptocz / D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2012. 

2011

Enabling Collective Operation of Indoor Flying Robots

J. Roberts / D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2011. 

Energy-Efficient Indoor Search by Swarms of Flying Robots without Global Information

T. Stirling / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2011. 

Enabling Large-Scale Collective Systems in Outdoor Aerial Robotics

S. Leven / D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2011. 

Genetic Representation of Adaptive Neural Controllers

P. Dürr / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2011. 

2010

Evolutionary Synthesis of Communication-Based Aerial Swarms

S. Hauert / D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2010. 

Bioinspired Jumping Locomotion for Miniature Robotics

M. Kovac / D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2010. 

2009

The evolution of communication in robot societies

S. Mitri / D. Floreano; L. Keller (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. 

Evolutionary reverse engineering of gene networks

D. Marbach / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. 

Vision-based control of near-obstacle flight

A. Beyeler / D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. 

Adaptive wake and sleep detection for wearable systems

W. Karlen / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. 

2008

Evolutionary and Computational Advantages of Neuromodulated Plasticity

A. Soltoggio / J. Bullinaria (Dir.)  

University of Birmingham, UK, 2008. 

2007

Enactive robot vision

M. Suzuki / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2007. 

Evolution of cooperation in artificial ants

M. Waibel / D. Floreano; L. Keller (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2007. 

2005

Evolutionary synthesis of analog networks

C. Mattiussi / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2005. 

Multi-cellular reconfigurable circuits

D. Roggen / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2005. 

Bio-inspired vision-based flying robots

J-C. Zufferey / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2005. 

2000

Evolutionary adaptive robots

J. Urzelai / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2000. 

1995

Neuroetologia Artificiale: alla ricerca delle basi adattive dell’intelligenza

D. Floreano 

University of Trieste, 1995. 

Reports

2010

Review of Light-weight Payloads for MAVs and Experiments with Thermopiles

A. Briod 

2010

Numerical Integration of SDEs: A Short Tutorial

T. Schaffter 

2010

2009

Stochastic Simulations for DREAM4

T. Schaffter; D. Marbach 

2009

2004

Optic-flow-based steering and altitude control for ultra-light indoor aircraft

J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2004

Hardware morphogenetic developmental system

D. Roggen; D. Floreano 

2004

2003

Viability Evolution: Elimination and Extinction in Evolutionary Computation

C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

2003

1994

Reti neurali artificiali: fondamenti tecnici e teorici

D. Floreano 

1994

1992

Internal Prediction and Environment Models: An application to the development of language

D. Floreano; D. Parisi 

1992

1991

Symmetry Detection with a Neural Network

D. Floreano; L. Zang; W. Gerbino 

1991

Patents

2020

Stretchable electrohydrodynamic pump

V. Cacucciolo; D. Floreano; S. Maeda; H. Shea; J. Shintake 

WO2020233791.

2020.

2019

STEERABLE CATHETER WITH PORTIONS OF DIFFERENT STIFFNESS

B. Nelson; S. Lyttle; C. Chautems; A. Tonazzini; D. Floreano 

US2020230361; EP3678724; CN111050835; WO2019048328; EP3449965.

2019-03-14.

Teleoperation with a wearable sensor system

J. Miehlbradt; F. I. T. Dell’Agnola; A. Cherpillod; M. Coscia; F. Artoni et al. 

US2021247758; WO2019244112; GB2574886; GB201810285.

2019.

2018

Jacket for embodied interaction with virtual or distal robotic device

D. Floreano; C. Rognon; S. Mintchev; A. Concordel; D. Atienza Alonso et al. 

US10860014; US2019258239; EP3509801; WO2018047102.

2018.

2017

Electroadhesive device, system and method for gripping

J. Shintake; S. Rosset; B. Schubert; D. Floreano; H. Shea 

US11065771; US2019047157; WO2017145103.

2017.

Foldable aircraft with protective cage for transportation and transportability

P. M. Kornatowski; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

PL3439955; EP3439955; US10252795; EP3439955; SG11201808868Q; US2017291697; WO2017175199.

2017.

Variable Stiffness Device and Method of Manufacturing the Same

A. Tonazzini; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

US10113537; US2017292502; WO2017175174.

2017.

2016

Non-invasive drawable electrode for neuromuscular electrical stimulation and biological signal sensing

A. Maesani; A. Biasiucci; S. S. G. Varricchio 

ES2935603; EP3191171; US11147492; US2017273590; EP3191171; WO2016038545.

2016.

Foldable and self-deployable aerial vehicle

S. Mintchev; L. Daler; D. Floreano; S. Mintchev 

US9446845; WO2016066790; US2016122016.

2016.

Neuroprosthetic System Restoring Upper Limb Function Through Coordinated Electrical Stimulation

A. Biasiucci; A. Maesani; H. Dimassi 

US10046161; US2016303369; EP3060113; WO2015059612.

2016.

2014

Vertical take-off and landing aerial vehicle

A. Briod; P. M. Kornatowski; A. Klaptocz; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

CN108137152; ES2767689; EP3347268; AU2016319276; PL3024726; EP3347268; CN108137152; AU2016319276; EP3024726; CN105164015; JP6224234; ES2633217; US9725170; EP2813428; US9611032; WO2017042354; JP2016523759; EP3024726; US2016001875; US2015360776; CN105164015; AU2014280222; WO2014198774; EP2813428.

2014.

Method to determine a direction and amplitude of a current velocity estimate of a moving device

A. Briod; J-c. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

US2015293138; EP2917693; WO2014072377; EP2730888.

2014.

2011

Method for fabricating an artificial compound eye

J. Duparré; A. Brückner; F. Wippermann; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano et al. 

AT538406; EP2306230; WO2011039062; EP2306230.

2011.

2008

Visual autopilot for near-obstacle flight

J-C. Zufferey; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

PL2274658; ES2389549; EP2274658; US2011029161; EP2274658; WO2009127907.

2008.

2007

Method and device for the genetic representation and evolution of networks

C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

US2007011111; US7370019.

2007.

2004

Spiking neural network device

D. Floreano 

AU2002338754; WO2004027704.

2004.